jellisjapan

Could you speak a little more to the point about how you feel Elixir actually adds to the complexity of Erlang? Was that comment mostly referring to the addition of those new concepts you just mentioned? Or were you referring to something else that the language does under the hood that adds to the general complexity?

Because you need to look under the milestones section. Still 6 left:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues?milestone=1&state=...

SEEKING WORK. New Orleans, LA (or remote).

I'm a full time developer concentrating on doing high quality front-end / UX work for web applications and startups. I can help you handle both design, app-flow, mockups, as well as the cross browser compliant HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript required to build it.

I also have especially good experience working with Ruby/Rails/Sinatra/Rack based applications (due to the fact that I've built many of my own from scratch as self produced applications).

Email in profile.

*assuming this is not an april fools joke

I don't usually login to post, but I just wanted to say, although I do not know your situation at all, if you're putting it up due to burn out, please take a second look and make sure what you're doing is for the best. Startups always have their down cycles, so I would hate for you to give away your company if it could be retained in some way, as burn out / down cycle are problems that can eventually be fixed.

I say this as I was on the brink of shutting my own startup very recently before I found my passion and drive for doing it again (after a burnout that took 8+ months to recover), and I'm very glad I ended up sticking with it.

Maybe they aren't the best way, but contests can make things more fun if you don't take them so seriously. I don't think he's scouting for cheap work to capitalize on, rather he's just looking to get the Ruby community's help involved in building a pretty looking site (hence why he isn't offering it on 99designs) and offering a prize to make it more fun.

Circus elephants and bears finally have some new competition.

I have to say, I remember reading your first post when you decided to do this stuff full time, and I didn't think doing just Adsense and Istockphoto would be enough to keep you afloat. It really seems though that you have the drive to do this, and it seems to be coming along for you, so I'm really happy to see that.

Also, I'd love to see a post with tips about selling photos on istockphoto.

I've always had the feeling that those companies have bosses dedicated to plenty of duplication and little innovation.

How is their current marketing and recognition? It might be worth it to start up an early marketing strategy and at least out-market them before you actually can launch. I don't know about the retailers, but some of them may be willing to wait on purchasing a product if they knew something better was coming along later.

Could you explain a little bit more about the "logistical nightmare" aspect of self-publishing? I'm thinking about self-publishing a book of my own, so I'd love to hear more about the obstacles you came across and how publishers make it easier.

Really cool, but I'd love to see the code you use to monitor your gmail account as well.

Truthfully, you sound annoying and out of touch with how the people around you probably feel when you act in the way you're describing.

That is pretty impressive. Also interesting that FF 3.5 seems to perform better than FF 3.6 according to those charts. Edit: Ah, nevermind, my mistake.

Agreed, but it's not like Hacker News has a job section for these sort of things (very tongue in cheek here by the way)...

A Hyper-Hypertext Preprocessor...sounds fast...

Are these 2 minute videos a way of marketing your book differently like you discuss in this particular video? (no sarcasm here, I'm generally curious on how you've been using this advice to market your own book :) )

I agree, but I couldn't help thinking that a Christopher Walken video would really have sealed the deal for me.

I'd love to read that book once it's published.

Wow looks great! I really need to checkout Cappuccino...

Just wondering, do you ever get users/companies concerned about the security/safety of their documents?

This was a problem I ran into. Originally my application did not require an email, but I ran into so many forgotten password cases that I eventually had to add one. And I felt it was my responsibility to help those users as most apps have that feature and usernames can be easy to forget.

Thanks, I'm really glad you like it! The IME wasn't difficult because unlike most cases of Japanese input, there is no need to convert it to kanji, which saves sooo much extra work.

I've been slowly creating a site to help japanese students learn kanji reading and context at readthekanji.com. I'm quite happy with it as it gets much better with every release and I'm learning a lot as I go.

Is your story actually interesting? I know in New Orleans, local successes make the news all the time because there is an interesting story to back it up. If your pitch is just that you made a website about Chicago and not much more, it wouldn't interest me much either.

Damn, I got PND'D...